The importance of event correlation technology

For ITOps teams charged with maintaining the health and availability of business services, event correlation capabilities are crucial. Event correlation helps ITOps teams make sense of the many events that take place within a digital ecosystem, and it identifies events that require further investigation or action.

Event correlation is essential for responding to incidents. Whether it’s a momentary spike in demand, a failing disk drive, or slow response times from a business-critical service, event correlation tools help make quick connections between these incidents and the events that may have caused them. Yet, as IT environments grow more complex and the volume, velocity, and variety of event data explodes, legacy event correlation tools may not be able to keep pace.

ScienceLogic can help. Offering an AIOps platform for intelligent IT operations, ScienceLogic enables event correlation by combining full-stack service topology, machine learning, and automation to deliver a real-time service-centric view of the complete IT estate.

AIOps and event correlation

Traditional event correlation software automates the process of sifting through incidents and events to quickly identify connections and better understand problems and symptoms. This is an important step in prioritizing and resolving incidents. While traditional event correlation software handles incident responses faster and more proficiently than humans, the rapid pace of change in IT environments has given rise to AIOps solutions that take event correlation to a new level.

AIOps, or artificial intelligence for IT operations, uses advanced machine learning and automation techniques to handle event correlation in real time, and to provide the context for every event. This accelerates the process of sifting through events and incidents. It supports triage to appropriately assess impact, prioritize incident response, and enrich ticketing with the data necessary to achieve a quick or even automatic resolution.

AIOps transcends event correlation and enables ITOps team to benefit from behavioral correlation. Behavioral correlation analyzes the behavior of users, devices, applications over time to identify anomalies that may point to security threats or operational issues. Using statistical analysis, machine learning, and other advanced techniques, behavioral correlation helps ITOps teams proactively detect and respond to potential threats or issues, addressing them before they manifest as significant incidents.

By enriching event correlation with behavioral correlation, AIOps helps organizations enhance threat detection, reduce false positives, accelerate incident response, and improve compliance and auditing.

Event correlation with ScienceLogic

As a leader in IT operations management, ScienceLogic provides modern IT operations with actionable insights to predict and resolve problems faster in a digital, ephemeral world.

The ScienceLogic AI Platform harnesses the power of machine learning to gain actionable insights from data collected across your hybrid and multi-cloud environments. To capitalize on these insights, SL1 automates routine operational tasks such as collecting diagnostic data, exchanging real-time operational data between systems and platforms, executing ticketing and remediation workflows, and more.

The ScienceLogic AI Platform uses event correlation and machine learning-based behavior correlation to detect anomalies and accelerate root cause analysis. With ScienceLogic, you can:

• Automatically detect weird anomalous patterns and shapes of performance data.
• Auto correlate events and anomalies to reduce noise and identify service-impacting issues.
• Quickly assess and isolate the root cause of issues.
• Troubleshoot and fix issues automatically for faster mean time to repair (MTTR).
• Automatically capture real-time diagnostic data when events occur.
• Create and enrich events with real-time diagnostic information.
• Run recommended triage and remediation actions from within a single command center.
• Automate operational workflows for performance insights.
• Resolve incidents faster with automated ticketing.
• Improve CMDB accuracy with real-time synchronization of monitored hybrid IT environments.
• Automate CI lifecycle, configuration, change, problem, compliance management, and more.

Additional solutions

In addition to tools for event correlation, ScienceLogic provides solutions for:

• Digital transformation and AIOps: ScienceLogic enables ITOps teams to leverage AIOps to enhance service health by progressively improving service visibility and automating IT workflows.
• Business service management: ScienceLogic empowers organizations to identify business service impact, minimize risk, and bridge the information gap between business and IT.
• IT tools consolidation and modernization: By consolidating IT operations monitoring tools and operations capabilities on a single platform, ScienceLogic helps enhance productivity, reduce costs, improve data integrity, simplify IT operations monitoring, and accelerate business delivery at speed and scale.
• IT workflow automation: ScienceLogic helps solve and ease daily operational challenges, transforming the organization to thrive on speed, efficiency, and innovation.
• IT infrastructure monitoring: ScienceLogic delivers the ability to see what’s happening across your entire IT estate and to predict and prevent outages, alerting your team to unplanned downtime, network intrusion, and resource saturation.
• Network management: The ScienceLogic AI Platform unifies network performance, configuration change, and traffic flow analysis for high-efficiency workflows and improved user experiences.
• Network compliance: ScienceLogic’s Restorepoint provides automation and configuration management across hundreds of network, security, and storage vendors.

Why choose ScienceLogic?

ScienceLogic is a leader in IT operations management, providing AIOps solutions for IT infrastructure monitoring, observability, network management, and more. By empowering intelligent, automated IT operations, ScienceLogic frees up time and resources for ITOPs teams and drives better business outcomes with actionable insights.

Our patented discovery techniques find everything within an IT environment, delivering visibility across all clouds, data centers, technologies, and vendors. The ScienceLogic AI Platform uses relationship mapping to contextualize data and enables IT teams to quickly resolve issues and improve service availability through integration and automation.

As the choice of thousands of organizations and governments around the world, the ScienceLogic AI Platform has been tested by the strict security requirements of the United States Department of Defense, proven for scale by the largest service providers in the world, and optimized for the needs of leading enterprises.